The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

“There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself

Conditions are created by thoughts far more powerfully than thoughts create conditions.

Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be.

Hold that picture, develop it firmly in all details, believe in it, pray about it, work at it, and you can actualise it according to that mental image emphasised in your positive thinking.

This great law briefly and simply stated is that if you think in negative terms you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms you will achieve positive results. That is the simple fact which is at the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity and success. In three words: Believe and succeed.